개정 경비업법의 평가와 정책과제 (The assessment and political subject of Revised Security Industry Law)
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- 시큐리티연구
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- 제36호
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- pp.349-386
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- 2013
본 연구에서는 박근혜정부가 지향하는 국정전략 가운데 하나인 '범죄로부터 안전한 사회구현'과 관련하여 '국민생활안전' 측면에서의 치안서비스 제공의 중요한 축이 되고 있는 민간경비산업에 대한 현 정부의 규제와 감독정책을 담고 있는 경비업법을 분석 평가하였다. 이러한 개정 경비업법의 평가를 통하여 현 정부가 지향하는 국민생활안전을 보다 체계적으로 접근하기 위해 설정한 민간경비 산업정책의 핵심가치(核心價値, Core Values)를 찾아내고, 특히 경찰의 민간경비에 대한 제반 정책기조를 확인하고 경비업법의 적용과 실제 운용에 있어서 바람직한 정책방향을 제시하고자 하였다. 개정 경비업법은 집단민원현장에서 경비업체의 불법폭력행위 등을 사전 차단하기 위해 배치허가제의 도입 및 경비지도사 및 경비원의 결격사유 그리고 처벌규정 등을 신설 혹은 강화하는 등 일부 규정에 있어서 행정규제(行政規制)를 보다 강화하는 방향으로 개정되었다. 다만, 종래 국민의 기본권 제한적(基本權 制限的) 성격의 조항이면서도 "경비업법시행령"이나 "경비업법시행규칙"에 규정되었던 내용을 대거 법률의 형식으로 바꾸는 등의 노력을 통하여 '법률주의(法律主義)'를 상당부분 관철하고 있다는 특징을 가지고 있다. 이번에 개정된 경비업법은 17개 조항의 개정이나 신설을 통하여 대폭적인 정책의 변화를 가져왔는데, 이를 범주화하면 (1)집단민원현장에서의 법 위반행위 엄벌주의 (2)법 위반행위자에 대한 경비업계 한시적 퇴출강화 (3)경찰의 법적 지도 감독권 강화 (4)자본금 상향 및 이름표 부착강제 기타 장비사용의 제한 등 크게 4가지로 나눌 수 있다. "경비업법"은 본질적으로 민간경비에 대한 국가적 간섭과 규제를 그 내용으로 할 수 밖에 없다. 하지만 이러한 간섭과 규제는 합리적인 범위 내로 제한(制限)되어야 한다. 역사가 증명하는 바와 같이 국가에 의한 과도한 규제는 국가적 사회적 비용을 낳고 국가의 치안시스템의 왜곡을 가져왔기 때문이다. 경비서비스를 제공하는 자를 법인(法人)으로 한정하거나 일정한 자격증(資格證) 소지자로 제한하거나 일정한 법정교육(法定敎育)을 받도록 하는 모든 것들이 종국적으로는 '국민생활의 안전'이라는 최상의 조합(最上의 調合)을 도출하기 위한 국가 사회 경제적 차원의 합리적이고도 적정한 조율을 전제한다는 점은 결코 간과하여서는 안된다.
Franchising is one of the fastest growing types of business. It is already popular and well-known in the U.S., and has been growing in many other countries including Korea. Furthermore, many Korean franchising companies have expanded their business overseas actively. According to the data by the Ministry of Industry and Resource, 82 companies out of a sample of 500 franchising companies are already operating in many foreign countries and 48% of them have started their foreign business since 2006. This clearly indicates the fast growing current trend of foreign operation by Korean franchising companies. In spite of the fast growing trend of foreign expansion in the industry, academic research on internationalization of franchising companies is extremely difficult to find. Accordingly, academic research on the issue is necessary and urgent in Korea. Among the various research questions on internationalization of franchising business, this study intends to investigate the difference in organizational factors between the franchising companies doing foreign operation and those doing business only domestically. More specifically, this research has the following purposes. First, considering the lack of theoretical basis of previous studies, resource-based theory and agency theory are employed as the theoretical bases. Second, this study explains the difference in internationalization based on organizational factors such as company size, history and growth rate. Third, the five hypotheses regarding the difference in organizational factors are presented and tested empirically, which is the first attempt in the area of this topic. Finally, the study attempts to clarify the conflicting implications among theories regarding some organizational factos such as growth rate. As the theoretical background, resource-based theory and agency theory are discussed. According to resource-based theory, a firm can grow continuously when it has competence and resource, and also the ability to develop them. The competence and resource can include capital, human resource, management skill, market information, ability to manage risk, etc. Meanwhile, agency theory views the relationship between franchisor and franchisee as an agency relationship. In agency theory, bonding capability and monitoring capability are the two key factors which promote internationalization of franchising companies. Based on the two theories, a conceptual model is designed. The model consists of two groups of variables. One is organizational factors including size, history, growth rate, price bonding and geographic dispersion. The other is whether a franchising company is operating overseas or not. We developed the following five research hypotheses basically describing the relationship between organizational factors and internationalization of franchising companies. H1: The size of franchising companies operating overseas is larger than that of franchising companies operating domestically. H2: The history of franchising companies operating overseas is longer than that of franchising companies operating domestically. H3: The growth rate of franchising companies operating overseas is higher than that of franchising companies operating domestically. H4: The price bonding of franchising companies operating overseas is higher than that of franchising companies operating domestically. H5: The geographic dispersion of franchising companies operating overseas is wider than that of franchising companies operating domestically. Data for the analyses are obtained from 2005 Korea Franchise Survey data co-generated by Ministry of Industry and Resource, GS1 Korea, and Korea Franchise Association. Out of 2,804 population companies, 2,489 companies are excluded for various reasons and 315 companies are selected as the final sample. Prior to hypotheses tests, validity and reliability of the measures of size, history, growth rate and price bonding are examined for further analyses. Geographic dispersion is not validated since it is measured using nominal data. A series of independent sample T-tests is used to find out whether there exists any significant difference between the companies internationalized and those operating only domestically for each organizational factor. Among the five factors, size and geographic dispersion show significant difference, growth rate and price bonding do not reveal any difference and, finally, history factor shows conflicting results in the difference depending on how to measure it.